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ajbera
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of the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium
Apr 1999
time: 05:20
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I think you have to have several things on hand to satisfy the oral fixation - food, lollipops, toothpicks, life savers & other hard candies. For me, pot worked well too, but then I did (and still do) smoke, so I wasn't starting anything new (and stopping pot is easy for me.) You may be able to resist the oral urge, but it's best to have a few things on hand to satisfy it if your resistance fails.
You may also want to look into lettuce-leaf cigarettes, or other non-tobacco smokeables. This is because the actual sensation of inhaling and exhaling smoke is very satisfying, and it helps to recreate it with a non-addictive substance. You'll not want to substitute one fo the other in the long run, but I found it helps in the short run to break the nicotine addiction.
After you've gotten to a point where you smoke less than 10 cigs/day for a week or so, declare that you'll stop altogether after you finish a pack, and stretch it out so that you smoke that last cig before bed.
Just sharing my experiences. I smoked a pack a day for 12 years, and it took me 3 times to quit. I haven't smoked in 5+ years, and don't desire to. I still smoke pot, but can (and have) quit for months at a time at will (and I prefer pot cookies to smoking anyhow.) I can also indulge in a cigar once every year or two without problems.
Then again, I was able to do cocaine for a summer, and stopped without much difficulty, so perhaps I'm not as susceptible to addictions as others.
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shawnmmcc
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Davout - sorry to hear you had a heart attack. With a myocardial infaction - my dad had one at 39 because of a similiar habit plus he was overweight - well, your heart can stop. How bad was it? You are awefully young for one.
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03-07-2005 18:49
But that first one tasted so good, I felt like being stoned and my fingertips began to tingle. So if that first one tastes so good then surely the second one must too, right? Well, it didn't and I was hooked again.
Aneurism - damn, those kill people. 
And I was feeling sorrow for myself when my drug interactions caused my heart to decide it was most unhappy and missed a beat. Several, actually until the rigged me up to one of those portable battery chargers and kick started me (didn't scare me at all, being unconscious and all that - my wife, on the other hand...). Fortunately for me it's just a matter of changing my Calcium Channel Blocker - no more generic for me - and dropping the dosage my Beta Blocker. The left my Angiotensin Receptor Blocker, diuretic, and Statin's alone - as I said, I'm on a sh*tload of drugs. They could have tried some of the drugs for arrythmia, but the FAA medical examiner was really unhappy with that solution, so we adjusted the other drugs.
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